When I first wrote last year about the fact that Google Scholar had added case law research, I acknowledged it was still rough around the edges. Even so, I described it as “more than just a good start,” adding, “I expect there will be further refinements and enhancements to come.”

A notable enhancement…

Think back to when our ancestors lived in caves and imagine yourself as your clan’s hunter-gatherer. Sit by the cave entrance all day and hope that a wooly mammoth might saunter by, and your clan will soon be clamoring for food. As a hunter-gatherer, you need to do just that – get out of your…

Victoria Pynchon, the Los Angeles mediator, author and blogger, will be in Boston on Tuesday, Jan. 18, to present a program, ABC’s of Negotiation.

Since 2006, Victoria  has written the blog Negotiation Law. In December, she and Lisa Gates launched a blog for Forbes, She Negotiates. As…

TechnoLawyer, the company that publishes a series of free e-newsletters devoted to legal technology and law practice management, today launched a new weekly newsletter, LitigationWorld. You can see the first issue here.

Edited by Kimberlee L. Gunning, a member of the Seattle firm Terrell…

A website launched this week, The Xemplar, has the goal of shining a spotlight on “independent attorneys” who serve as examples of the best of the profession. Each month, the site will feature one attorney, generally from a solo or small firm, nominated and selected by a…

In a recent post here, I told you about iPleading, an iPhone and iPad app that lets lawyers get a head start on the process of drafting a legal pleading. As I reported then, the app did not work as it was supposed to. When I pointed this out to its developers, they…

For an update on this post, see: Update on iPleading: It’s Been Fixed.

iPleading is billed as an iPhone and iPad app that lets lawyers create “impressive pleadings with astounding ease.” The problem is, it doesn’t work. The developers say a fix is in the works and will be available within the…

This post comes nine months too late, but it was only via a recent post by Walter Olson that I learned about the untimely death at age 54 of lawyer Peter Nordberg. He died April 17, leaving behind his wife and four children.

In his day job, Peter was a partner with the Philadelphia…

An iPad equipped with the right software could be a powerful tool in the courtroom, given its portability and ease of use. A new iPad app, TrialPad, is specifically designed for use in the courtroom, as a tool to prepare and present electronic evidence at trial. Connect your iPad to a courtroom projector and use…

Voting ends Dec. 30 for the readers’ favorites of the 2010 ABA Journal Blawg 100. LawSites is in the Legal Tech category. If you haven’t voted for your favorites, now is the time.

(In order to vote, you have to register with ABAJournal.com.)…

A full-featured PDF program is a must-have for any lawyer these days. But at a price tag of $449, Adobe Acrobat X Pro is a lot to pay for lawyers in solo and small firms. CutePDF Pro is a program that provides much of the same functionality as Acrobat Pro, but…

After my earlier post about Demand Media, I received a comment from a Demand Media community manager who said that the contract I cited is not the contract that applies to bloggers. I went back and checked the contract that was presented to me when I was invited to migrate my BlogBurst account to…